A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.